
Police have suspended the search for a man missing after a speed boat capsized off Batemans Bay yesterday.
The decision to suspend the search was made at 11am after visibility, wind and ocean conditions deteriorated and there were concerns for welfare of those searching. The situation will be reviewed later today.
Today’s search involved water police from Eden, the police airwing, Polair, the Westpac Lifesaver Rescue helicopter, four marine rescue vessels, four surf lifesaving IRBs and a jet ski. Police divers are still travelling to the scene.
A search was initiated about 2pm yesterday (Saturday 1 October 2011), when an 11-year-old girl was found clinging to the hull of a 4.9m powered catamaran in an area known as Yellow Rock.
A short time later, the bodies of a 10-year-old girl, a 73-year-old man, and a 66-year-old woman were recovered from the water.
A man, believed to be aged in his 40s, remains missing.
It’s believed the children were on holidays from Victoria with their grandparents, who live in the Batemans Bay area.
Source: NSW Police Force
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